How does the modern Kansas City Chiefs compare to teams who won previous Super Bowls over the past 58 years?Tags: football, Super Bowl | Continue reading
Your body goes through a special process to digest spicy food. The sting, the sweating, the sting afterwards. For the Washington Post, Bonnie Berkowitz, Aaron Steckelberg, and Szu Yu Chen illustrat… | Continue reading
This chart by Eric Wallerstein for the Wall Street Journal shows expectations against reality. They often don’t match up. See also: how rate projections change over time. | Continue reading
This week's topic comes through a FD reader who asks how I manage and organize data from analysis through visualization.Tags: organization | Continue reading
Education paths start to diverge towards the end of high school and after.Tags: age, education | Continue reading
There are competitions where people complete jigsaw puzzles as quickly as they can, and some teams take it very seriously. Because of course. For the Washington Post, Chris Alcantara shows the time… | Continue reading
Sébastien Matos used a straightforward view to show the evolution of the scrollbar, dating back to the Xerox 8010 Information System from 1981. | Continue reading
For NPR, Juliana Kim reports: Deep Sea Vision, an ocean exploration company based in South Carolina, announced Saturday that it captured compelling sonar images of what could be Earhart’s air… | Continue reading
For WP’s Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam notes the decline of the school bus and the rise of the private vehicle to bring kids to school. The estimates are based on responses to the Nation… | Continue reading
Start with water, fire, wind, and earth and see what you can craft by combining elements. Neal Agarwal made a game, Infinite Craft, that uses Llama 2, a large language model, to build just about an… | Continue reading
There was a time when big infographics ruled, and then their popularity faded as quickly as it came. It wasn't because of their size though, which might have been the only thing right about them.Tags: analysis, depth, size | Continue reading
I wrote a book! It’s the second edition of Visualize This. It focuses on the how of visualization with practical examples that you can apply to your own data. You’ll learn how to use a … | Continue reading
Alastair Humphreys, using a 20 by 20 kilometer map of where he lives, explored one square kilometer at a time as if he were traveling farther. For the Guardian: Travelling around my unremarkable ma… | Continue reading
Some occupations are more race-dominant than others. This is the percentage of employed persons 16 years and older who are a given race or ethnicity for each.Tags: race, work | Continue reading
Usually when you see a railway map, it’s from a local perspective, because it’s meant to show how you get from point A to point B. As a learning experiment, Zhaoxu Sui mapped major rail… | Continue reading
A map, by Pantry & Larder, shows the cost of a Big Mac at each McDonald’s in the United States, as of early 2023. As you might expect, the prices are higher on the east and west coasts. … | Continue reading
Using data from the crowdsourced database eBird, Harry Stevens mapped the shifts in bird populations for the Washington Post. Increased building and climate change have led to population declines f… | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for January.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
For Numberphile, Simon Anthony explains the Phistomephel Ring. The shape always contains the same numbers as the corners do. Math magic! | Continue reading
Meant to be comprehensive more than a curated collection, the Journalist’s Toolbox AI provides many links to tools that might help you data more efficiently. Or at least use more AI-ish thing… | Continue reading
You can always count on the site for updates on visualization, data, and statistics. There’s also RSS and email. But someone told me you should meet the people where they are, so here are the… | Continue reading
In an effort to find a suspect in a 1990 murder, there was a police request in 2017 to use a 3-D rendering of a face based on DNA. For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra reports: The detective’s request to run … | Continue reading
Rivers drain into oceans. Grasshopper Geography color-coded the rivers in the world by the ocean they drain into and made a series of maps. But what is an ocean drainage basin map, I hear most of y… | Continue reading
If you’re into basketball data, Sravan Pannala is keeping a running list of data sources, apps, and visualization on the topic. I can always use more basketball data, so I’ll bookmark t… | Continue reading
Financial Times highlights how researchers are using AI to try to learn what animal sounds mean and to communicate back. Turn on the sound for maximum effect. | Continue reading
Welcome to The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau. Statistical charts are often abstract representations of data whit… | Continue reading
You can find Asian restaurants in most places in the United States, but the type of Asian food choices varies. For Pew Research, Sona Shah and Regina Widjaya mapped the distributions of eight major… | Continue reading
Earth got its hottest year on record in 2023. Based on data from Berkeley Earth, John Muyskens and Niko Kommenda, for The Washington Post, focused on the geographic areas that experienced the bigge… | Continue reading
A warming climate has meant less snow in the northern hemisphere, which is a problem when agriculture depends on melting snow to grow crops. Bloomberg reports on the current snow drought situation. | Continue reading
If you’re traveling to a new city, it can be tricky to figure out where things are and what the places are like. However, if you had a tool that set the context of the new city in terms of th… | Continue reading
For The Washington Post, Hanna Zakharenko charted all the movies that were adapted from musicals that were adapted from movies. So the above shows the timelines for original movies. Then the musica… | Continue reading
We often talk about visualization in terms of restrictions and rules, as if you must limit your possibilities to make charts the right way. As you might have guessed, there are other options.Tags: options | Continue reading
A refrigerator-sized panel popped off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 during the ascent of an Alaska Airlines flight. Reuters illustrates what that panel is for, other airlines with the same configuration, and … | Continue reading
In the 2000s, if you wanted to make interactive or animated visualization for the web, Flash was the main option. When Flash lost support and fell off the internet, a solid decade of great visualiz… | Continue reading
Aaron Koelker used a receipt printer to print a six-foot long map of the Wakulla River in Florida. He outlined his process with Adobe Illustrator and the printer. I kind of want a thermal printer n… | Continue reading
The classic coin flip is treated as a fair way to make decisions, assuming an even chance for heads or tails on each flip. However, František Bartoš was curious and recruited friends and colleagues… | Continue reading
There were many AI-based things in 2023. Simon Willison outlined what we learned over the year: The most surprising thing we’ve learned about LLMs this year is that they’re actually quite easy to b… | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Peter Millard and Michael D. McDonald report on the efforts to maintain water levels in the Panama Canal. Falling levels limit the number of ships that can pass through the waterway … | Continue reading
With each new AI-based tool that comes out, I begrudgingly kick the tires to see what kind of charts it spits out. I need to know when it’s time to hang the old data boots and switch careers.… | Continue reading
By Reddit user Pitazboras, a movie timeline for Oppenheimer with running time on the x-axis and chronological time on the y-axis. I haven’t seen the movie, so I cannot speak to the accuracy. … | Continue reading
Data continues on its upwards trajectory and with it comes the importance of visualization. Many charts were made in 2023. These are my ten favorites from the year.Tags: best-of | Continue reading
Here is the good stuff for December in the last roundup for 2023.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Recharge, an art installation by Dries Depoorter, uses a system that detects when you close your eyes. Recharge yourself and your phone gets to also. | Continue reading
YouTube doesn’t offer numbers for how big they are, so Ethan Zuckerman and Jason Baumgartner estimated the size using a method they equate to drunk dialing. Consider drunk dialing again. Let’… | Continue reading
NYT’s The Upshot looked at 424 holiday movies released by the Hallmark and Lifetime networks since 2017. Like most forms of entertainment, the movies look identical from a zoomed out view. Th… | Continue reading
Neo Lu was scammed into a labor camp. In an effort to escape and expose the operation, he began to send information to The New York Times from within. Mr. Lu said he pleaded to be freed, but his ca… | Continue reading
Here are some fun things to make with data in case you're looking for a chart-ish distraction.Tags: fun | Continue reading
Kurzgesagt illustrates the scale of the tiniest of things and the biggest of things by zooming in and out, but unlike videos before, they focus on human scale by comparing everything against it at … | Continue reading